Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2016 11:33:31 -0600 From: "Nelson H. F. Beebe" <beebe@math.utah.edu> To: Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> Cc: beebe@math.utah.edu, freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: ftpd leaks info which might be useful to an attacker Message-ID: <CMM.0.95.0.1473874411.beebe@gamma.math.utah.edu> In-Reply-To: <1333775a-3398-ab93-66fe-6c381eb5c428@FreeBSD.org>
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Matthew Seaman <matthew@FreeBSD.org> writes today: >> About the only useful way to use FTP any more is for anonymous read-only >> access to download stuff from an archive -- and in that use case, a web >> server is generally a much better choice. FTP as a protocol is archaic >> and needs to die. I agree with the first point (up to the dash), but strongly disagree with the second: FTP provides directory listing capability, whereas HTTP does not. I use "dir -tr" in FTP connections quite frequently, and I find the timestamps in the directory listings critical information that is routinely lost at many HTTP-only sites. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - Nelson H. F. Beebe Tel: +1 801 581 5254 - - University of Utah FAX: +1 801 581 4148 - - Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB Internet e-mail: beebe@math.utah.edu - - 155 S 1400 E RM 233 beebe@acm.org beebe@computer.org - - Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ - -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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